The European Parliament's Brexit co-ordinator Guy Verhofstadt: "our recommendation to the European Council is now to go to phase two of the negotiations" - but the EP's resolution next week will outline five issues that need to be tackled before the UK's orderly withdrawal

Simon Coveney: there is now a default/backstop position which ensures that an all-island economy can function, that north-south cooperation continues to function and that the Good Friday Agreement can continue to be implemented

Barnier: if all goes well in October 2018 we should have agreed on an Art 50 treaty organising orderly withdrawal which will also cover agreement on transitional period, and alongside that treaty there will be a political statement on the part of EU 27 regarding future relationship

"We want to begin discussions with the UK in order to explore the British vision of its future relationship with the EU," says @eucopresident as he outlines areas such as trade, security and foreign policy

Tusk announcing press conference for early Friday on Brexit. But commission negotiators will surely say something tonight if breakthrough. Good possibility that Theresa May will show up in European capital tonight

26-year-old Mohammed Abdallah has been found guilty by UK court of being a member of Islamic State, of being in possession of £2,000 for terrorism purposes and of being in possession of a weapon after he was identified in official I.S. documents obtained

Report into Croydon tram crash in which seven people were killed and 69 others injured on 9 November last year says driver failed to apply brakes in time to negotiate a sharp bend and concludes driver may have lost awareness or had a "microsleep" due to fatigue

Momentum spokesperson says "much of the UK Electoral Commission investigation refers to administrative errors that can be easily rectified" and the group "will fully comply with the investigation going forward"

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